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Health and Safety Alerts
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Audience: Emergency services personnel and risk managers (07/07/06)
MRL, Inc., and FDA notified healthcare professionals of a Class I recall of Welch Allyn PIC 50 Automated External Defibrillators, catalog #97108X manufactured from March 2002 through October 2004. An electrical contact problem may result in the device's failure to provide a defibrillation shock, that could result in delay or failure to resuscitate the patient. This failure may be accompanied by various error messages on the display panel, including the "Defib Comm" error message.
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/recalls/recall-063006.html |
Audience: Emergency Services personnel and risk managers (06/16/06)
MRL, Inc. and FDA notified healthcare professionals of a voluntary worldwide Class I recall of 580 AED20 automatic external defibrillators. An intermittent electrical connection within the device may result in failure or unacceptable delay in analyzing the patient’s ECG, failure to deliver appropriate therapy and failure to resuscitate the patient. FDA defines a Class I recall as one in which there is reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to the product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/recalls/recall-061506.html |
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